The Rail
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from our favorite emerging writers
Feast of Love The kindness of your eyes above your plate. So many meals shared over nineteen years. No one holds the divination leaves, how many swallows remain. Behind you, windowpanes press against the darkening mountain. The server knows our beverages. Mine: always the same, served in a salt-rimmed tumbler, yours in a martini glass, with a submerged brown cherry. These simple hours, swallowed in tiny sips, to make them last. Ten of Wands This load is heavier than last year’s. First you carried one burden, then five, but before you knew, the weight crushed your narrow shoulders into fragments, fine but sharp as cinders. Still, you lift the bundle, hoist its misshapen branches against your face. Your eyes can’t detect the invisible road, as it unwinds its endless loop. Stay the course, until either the trail vanishes, or you no longer exist. The cargo will remain long after you are gone. Leah Mueller is an indie writer and spoken word performer from Bisbee, Arizona. Her most recent books, Misguided Behavior, Tales of Poor Life Choices (Czykmate Press), Death and Heartbreak (Weasel Press), and Cocktails at Denny's (Alien Buddha) were released in 2019. Leah’s work appears in Midway Journal, Citron Review, The Spectacle, Miracle Monocle, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere. Her essay Firebrand, The Radical Life and Times of Annie Besant appears in the book, Fierce, Essays By and About Dauntless Women which placed first in the non-fiction division of the 2019 Publisher's Weekly Booklife contest. Check out her website at www.leahmueller.org
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